THE ALLIANCE-INDEPENDENT.
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SOME CARNEGIE HIST6RY.
Crushing Power of The Great Iron Com
pany Untold Wealth.
The bitter struggle at Homestead
between organized workmen on the one
hand and organized millionaires on the
other, gives to the phenomenal career of
Andrew Carnegie, the chief of capital's
iidc in the controversy, a special interest
) to Americans, who arc called upon to
lecide by their votes whether or not
they indorse a system which has made
such wholcsarb money-gathering possiblo
to any man, The history of Carnegie's
wealth-making is one of the most extra
ordinary in the history of the United
States, and he differs from every other
American millionaire in his ambitions
and achievements no less than in the use
he has made of his wealth, the distinct
ions which he has striven to obtain, and
the curious mixture of socialism and
imperialism which go to make up his
character.
People in general who read about the
6trikc at Homestead have no idea of the
extent of the Carnegie industries of
wiiich that will, with it3 thousands of
workmen, is but one among many.
Even in Pittsburg, under the shadow of
he vast commercial house which Mr.
Carnegie has built iip, there are thou
Eands of people with no adequate idea
of its extent and resources, of the crush
ing power with which it has stamped
out aspiring rivals or the millions of
profit which it has reaped and of the
long line of huge iron industries which
it has swallowed one after another.
People who read the accounts of the
strike are confused by Various names cm
ployed. There is talk cf Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., of the Bessemer Steel Co.,
of the Lucy Furnace, of the Keystone
Bridge Co., of the llartmnn Steel Co. of
Carnegie brothers although there is
now only one Carnegie of the Edgar
Thompson mills and of the Homestead
mills, with a host of others. They all
are Carnegie industries, although
Andrew Carnegie has no share in their
management. The man at the head of
affairs is the Mr. Frick who is taking all
the responsibility. Ho is the head" oFtlie
new concern, the Carnegie Steel Co.
(Limited), which came into being a few
weeks ago and which embraces all the
industries absorbed by Carnegie or
started by him up to date.
This huge ocropus has so many arms
and tentacles t hat only people in the iron
trade arc aware of its vamilicatiens.
Yet the rise of Carnegie and the story of
his life arc as much a wonder to them as
if they knew nothing of the man who
has made himself master of the greatest
industry in the new world. Carnegie
not only founded a great house, but he
has invented a new business maxim and
followed it with marvelous success.
When he ceased to be a telegraph
operator and went into business with
his brother Tom and D. A Stewart,
Carnegie laid it down as a fundamental
principle upon which the partnership
should be conducted that when a partner
died his estate should bo settled up
within thirty days and his interest in the
business acquired by the remaining
partners, and also that no son or child of
any of them should have a share in the
concern or a voice in its management.
This policy has been rigidly followed
down to the present; The consequence
has been that the partnerehip from time
to time has been refreshed and invigor
ated by infusions of new blood and the
active managers have been young and
energetic men. )Yrhcnevcr an employe
or a successful man in some outside but
collateral businees, as in the case of
Frick, displayed unusual ability and
energy, he was taken in, given a share
in the profits and pushed rapidly to the
front.
Both David A. Stewart and Tom Car
negie, who formed tbe original copart
nership with Andrew Carnegie, are now
dead, and each died a many times
millionaire at a time when the business
had not anything like its present
proportions but was growing rapidly.
Mr. Stewart left two sons and Tom
Carnegie more than half a dozen, yet
none of these young men were allowed
to come into the concern, and the estates
of their fathers were settled up im
mediately after death and the business
continued by Andrew Carnegie. The
consequence' has been that the active
management of" the business has been
intrusted to bright and active men wlib
have grown up on iron.
All of theso partners have become
millionaires. To be suro thGy are not
millionaires of the Carnegie magnitude,
having to strugglo along with from one
to ten million!. This was the case with
Henry Phipps. He is one of mlnoi
partners, whose name has not even been
mentioned in connection with the Home
stead strike, and yet he lives in England
in a palace and maintains an establish
ment like one of the princes of the blood.
Indeed there is not in England a princ
with a house as line as Kneb worth Park.
Stevenage, Herts, where Henry Phippi
and his family are now residing.
This magnificent house is the count rj
stat of the Lyttons, and from there the
late Lytton was buried. Knebwoith
which has an immense aemcsnc ana ar
estate of thousands of acres, with every
thing which wealth, care and time car
add to make it a delight to the eye, wai
at one time a royal palace, and has beer
in the family of the Lyttons since abou1
1470. It was purchased then by Sii
Robert de Lytton, who was Undei
Treasurer jof the Exchequer to Ilenrj
VII., and Queen Elizabeth with othe;
subsequent sovereigns have been enter
taincd within its ample walls
The fortunate tenant of this establish
ment has, however, been through tin
mill at Pittsburg, and the yeMv of'tol
lie has put in piling up the Carnegie
millions as well as his own entitle him
to the case and comfort which it is
presumed he now enjoys there. Mr.
Phipps, who, unlike Carnegie, lias never
aspired to literary or political distinct
ion, was recently presented at court,
with his daughter and other members of
his family. Rigged out in the ornate
costume which a man is obliged to put
on when he goes to court, the partner of
Andrew Carnegie may be highly
Interesting from a picturesque stand
point, but does not add much to the
dignity of American citizenship.
Carnegie, as the cable has told the
puUic, is living now in lordly luxury at
Cluny Castle, Scotland. 1
Here is what a recent writer had to
say about the goings-on at the castle :
"Mr. Carnegie has a pljjer of his own,
who pipes each day " for dinner, the
company marching two and two behind
him thrice around the hall in solemn
Srocession until led by the host to tho
Ining-room." The same writer, in
farther description of this famous piper,
says that ho is always "resplendent in
tho Carnegie tartan." Thcro is no
Carnegie tartan, and James Grant's
book, "Tho Tartans of tho Clans of
Scotland," docs not CTcn mention tho
name of the family. Tho "Carnegie
Tartan," therefore, which tho piper at
Cluny Castle wears, must not only havo
been made out of whole cloth, bujt it
must havo been invented by Mr. Car
negie. Perhaps he wears tho kilt him
self. People who know Carnegie havo
told him that his manly form coald be
set off to no better effect than if he were
to don the cap, the stocktngs and the
sporran. - f"v i
III3 NEW niGIILAKD SEAT. I
But ho is now at Cluny Castle.
Klnlochrannoch, Perthshire, is the name
of his new country seat fn the, Highlands',
and here his grounds embrace thousands
of acres of mountain and moorland,
brawling burn and silvery loch. ,
In Ids splendid house in New York,
No. 5 west Fifty-first street, Carnegie,
who has filled tho establishment with
Scotch servants, has invented a coat-of-arms
which reporters who have Inter
viewed him in his library hav.e seen
emblazoned on tho walls. It consists of
loaves of bread quartered with a knife,
sausagos, heads of cabbages, etc., in
yules, azuro and ermine and all painted
with a wretched disregard of art.
Much attention is given to Spain'
young six-year-old king. The proba
bilities are that when that kid is old
enough to be a king the world will bo
too wise to admit of any such foolish
ness even in old bcnjclitcd Spain.
Sixty-cent wheat, five-cent cotton,
lower prices for cattle and everything
else produced are arguments that are
silently but surely doing a work in
opening the eyes of men that have here
tofore been deaf to the appeals of
reason.
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